Very few things in the CE world get me excited these days. And for whatever reason Belkin’s Conserve Valet USB charging station has me all worked up today. The $40 hub charges up to 4 devices at one time and automatically shuts itself off once each device is fully charged or unplugged. Belkin also claims …

Apple is currently dealing with the public fallout from the discovery that someone had hacked iTunes accounts to fake purchases for 41 of his comic apps in the bookstore – comic apps that were, themselves, stolen intellectual property. The trail began with the discovery this weekend that 41 out of Apple’s top 50 book apps belonged to …

The ocean is something near and dear to my heart. I love the ocean. I hope to surf in any one of our beautiful oceans until the day I die. Well, maybe not the Arctic unless I have one of those heated suits from Rip Curl cuz, you know, it’s freezing cold. Even if you don’t surf, bodyboard, bodysurf or dive, you should join the …

According to Lucasfilm it is, even though Wicked Lasers doesn’t advertise it as such. But let’s be honest, the hilt looks exactly like a lightsaber. Here’s what Lucasfilm’s General Counsel David Anderman had to say:

“It has come to our attention that a company called Wicked Lasers is selling a highly dangerous product …

Updates to Amazon’s Kindle have been fast and furious lately. Today Amazon introduced a new Kindle DX with a lower price and higher contrast display. The 9.7-inch DX now comes in a graphite colorway with an updated e-ink display that’s 50 percent higher in contrast to the previous model for cleaner text and sharper images. …

Science has done many truly wonderful things in the past, but little measures up to the sight of Oscar, the British cat with bionic legs. Yes, that’s right: the cat with bionic legs. Oscar lost his back legs in a combine harvester accident, but the skills of Dr Noel Fitzpatrick meant that he was able to jump about at random like every …

Marvel Comics is about to test the potential strength of its digital audience by releasing both print and digital versions of the same comic on the same day for the first time. Marvel announced today that June 30th will see the release of Invincible Iron Man Annual #1 as both one 80-page comic book in direct market stores across the US …

Ah, summertime. It’s been quite a while since we last saw each other. I’m looking forward to this weekend. I hope you are too. Leading up to the long weekend, we’ll have a few things to help get you ready for summer.

Besides the potential surf the Atlantic has to offer this weekend, the fire pit, pool, and beer pong, I’m …

Sound the alarm. Raise the roof. Do a jig. And have a seat for some exciting Kindle news.

Sometime towards the latter half of May, Kindle owners will receive a notification to update software to v2.5. A handful of folks around the Web were quick to jump on the social networking integration, which is nice and all but the other …